Raja Krishnamoorthi

Raja Krishnamoorthi (19 July 1973-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-IL 8) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Tammy Duckworth.

Biography
Raja Krishnamoorthi was born in New Delhi, India in 1973, and his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was three months old. In 1980, the family moved to Peoria, Illinois, and Krishnamoorthi worked as a law clerk, a staffer for Barack Obama during his political campaigns, as a law firm partner, and as a technology company president. In 2016, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democratic Party member, focusing on middle class issues as a member of the centrist New Democrats.